"There will be no reconciliation with those whose hands have
been stained with blood and who turned weapons against the state and
its institutions," he added.

Muslim Brotherhood members were blamed for attacking Coptic Christian
churches and communities.

MB's Freedom and Justice Party board member Amr Darrag said Brotherhood
members always protected them.

He blamed thugs complicit with security forces, saying:

"These allegations are being propounded by the current (regime),
in order to justify the aggression."

On August 18, The New York Times headlined "Islamists Killed While in Custody, Egypt Confirms,"
saying:

"The Egyptian government acknowledged that its security forces
had killed 36 Islamists in its custody on Sunday, as the country’s
military leaders and Islamists vowed to keep up their fight over Egypt’s
future."

"The deaths were the fourth mass killing of civilians since the
military took control on July 3, but the first time so many had died
while in government custody."

Egypt's Interior Ministry claimed detainees tried to escape. It issued
contradictory reports. It gave one account, then another. MB officials
called what happened "assassinations."

"No sooner do Egyptians now bury their martyrs felled by the
hand of treachery and state terrorism than they receive even more martyrs
killed by military and police forces of the bloody coup engaged in a
war of annihilation against Egyptians opposed to the brutal putsch."

"Dead and injured peaceful protesters have reached astronomical
numbers, with the last of state-executed massacres killing at least
37 Egyptian citizens in a police van on the way to a prison on Sunday,
August 18."

Assassinations were "for their opposition to the bloody military
council."

"This heinous crime shows the total disregard of the right to
life by these murderous fascist thugs."

"But the people will not kneel and will get through this black
period of Egyptian history."

Koran 26.227 was quoted saying:

"Those who do wrong will soon come to know where they will end
up."

Israel's complicit in what's ongoing. On August 18, The Times headlined "Israel Escalating Efforts to Shape Allies'
Strategy," saying:

"Israel plans this week to intensify its diplomatic campaign
urging Europe and the United States to support the military-backed government
in Egypt despite its deadly crackdown on Islamist protesters, according
to a senior Israeli official involved in the effort."

Israeli ambassadors in Washington and EU capitals are lobbying foreign
ministers. Netanyahu's government claims SCAF control is vital to prevent
further chaos.

According to an unnamed Israeli official:

"We’re trying to talk to key actors, key countries, and share
our view that you may not like what you see, but what's the alternative?"

"If you insist on big principles, then you will miss the essential
- the essential being putting Egypt back on track at whatever cost."

"First, save what you can, and then deal with democracy and freedom
and so on. At this point, it's army or anarchy."

Israeli journalist Alex Fishman said:

"Israel is in a state of diplomatic emergency. It has been waging
an almost desperate diplomatic battle in Washington."

It wants support for Egypt's government continued. It wants US-supplied
aid maintained. It underpins the 1978 Camp David Accords. The 1979 Egypt-Israel
Peace Treaty followed.

Washington, Israel, and EU leaders agree. Public rhetoric belies official
policy. Support business as usual continues.

EU's warning about "urgent(ly) review(ing)" relations with
Egypt falls short of credibility. Whatever follows will be less than
what's needed. It'll be short-lived.

A joint European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso statement was less than convincing,
saying:

"We regret deeply that international efforts and proposals for
building bridges and establishing an inclusive political process, to
which the EU contributed actively, were set aside and a course of confrontation
was pursued instead."

"While all should exert maximum restraint, we underline the particular
responsibility of the interim authorities and of the army in bringing
clashes to a halt."

"The violence and the killings of these last days cannot be justified
nor condoned. Human rights must be respected and upheld. Political prisoners
should be released."

According to Israeli Professor Yoram Meital:

"From the Israeli perspective it is security, security and security
- and then other issues."

"If we study the Israeli perspective, then (so-called) universal
values are secondary to the top priorities of security and security."

Bar-Ilan University lecturer Mordechai Kedar heads its Center for
the Study of the Middle East and Islam.

He opposes backing Egypt's government. He calls it "a very big
mistake to interfere in what happens."

"Israel, by supporting explicitly the army, exposes itself to
retaliation. Israel should have done things behind the scenes, under
the surface, without being associated with any side of the Egyptian
problem."

"All these words apply to the disgrace of Egypt these past six
weeks."

"A military coup, millions of enraged supporters of the democratically
elected but deposed dictator - reports that indicate well over
1,000 Muslim Brotherhood sympathisers slaughtered by the security police
- and what were we told by the authorities yesterday?"

"That Egypt was subject to 'a malicious terrorist plot.' "

"The country, we are now informed, is at the mercy of 'extremist
forces who want to create war.' You would think, on hearing this, that
most of the dead these past six weeks were soldiers and policemen, whereas
in fact most were unarmed demonstrators."

Who's to blame, asked Fisk? Obama's very much complicit. He lied claiming
most Egyptians supported ousting Morsi by coup d'etat.

General Sisi "must have been delighted" to hear it, said
Fisk. He compared dissolving the MB to Britain earlier declaring the
IRA illegal. "Did that make them go away," he asked?

He's in Cairo. He's witnessing events firsthand. He sees state of
emergency harshness. It means: "Fear. No rights. No arrest warrants.
No law," he said.

It bodes ill for what's coming. When state-sponsored terror's official
government policy, the worst of all possible outcomes follows.

When world leaders let despotic regimes get away with brute force,
mass murder, illegal detentions and torture, all bets are off.

Egypt holds its breath. Conflict continues. Resolution's nowhere in
sight. Anything ahead is possible. Worst of all would be civil war.